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Refugitta of Richmond : the wartime recollections, grave and gay, of Constance Cary Harrison / edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- Virginia.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Richmond (Va.).
- Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920.
- Harrison, Burton.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay, a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by the wife of President Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Although equal in literary merit to the well-known and widely available diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Eliza Frances Andrews, Harrison's memoir failed to remain in print after its original publication in 1916 and, as a result,
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Refugitta of Richmond; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Epilogue; Appendix: Burton Norvell Harrison; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published under title: Recollections grave and gay. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613098603
- 9781283098601
- 1283098601
- 9781572337923
- 1572337923
- OCLC:
- 721194570
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